Summer Lies Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

We used to dance like it was going out of style 

When you loved me for a while 

And I remember every word you ever said, every kiss 

We used to sing all the oldest songs we knew 

But the words were never true for you 

Or was it all a game of solitaire played in the dark? 

All the sweetest things you said 

And I believed were summer lies 

Hanging in the willow trees 

Like the dead were summer lies 

I'll never fall in love again 

I whispered too but the things I said were true 

And I gave up my whole world for you 

I gave you all the best years of my life 

And half the worst and now you're gone 

I pine and wane, pale and wan, never knowing 

When it's dawn, curtains drawn 

Hiding in my room, wasting away, cutting myself 

All the sweetest things you said 

And I believed were summer lies 

Hanging in the willow trees 

Like the dead were summer lies 

I'll never fall in love again